[serialposts]With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it got me wondering if I’m a pretty ungrateful person. The reason I need to pose that question is because when I reflect on my prayer life, am I the kind of person who spends a fair amount of time counting my...
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joy vs. happiness
Verses like these use to trouble me: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds," -- James 1:2 (NIV) "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials." -- 1 Peter 1:6...
even for the little things
I am lying on my stomach on an operating table, waiting for a doctor to administer the third cortisone shot to my back. It’s one of those bulging disc / pinched nerve things. And I ask myself if I should be praying. I know what to expect: first the local anesthetic...
book review: invitations from God
Life brings invitations. Jesus knew his spiritual journey depended upon responsiveness to God’s invitations. Although his job was the most crucial in human history, Jesus did not get compulsive, preoccupied or unable to practice the presence of God or people. In the...
serving communion
"Body of Christ broken for you." I repeated this simple phrase as I broke off...
a re-evaluation of my time [invitations from God]
He sat in his wheel chair on the corner of Goodwin and Granite Streets as if...
do you read the bible at work?
I saw a comment on the company's intranet website recently by a Muslim...
light the torches and lower the drawbridge…
“I want to be part of a church that wants to be part of something.” These...
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